Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

It unveiled the console on Wednesday just hours before the president announced a wave of global tariffs.

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DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming servers as law enforcement struggles to keep up.

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Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen still sees opportunity in global trade despite Trump’s tariffs

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Flexport’s business is built on supply chains, and the new tariffs the U.S. is placing upon its trading partners have plunged international trade into chaos. Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen joined TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos for a StrictlyVC conversation on the ins and outs of the tariffs’ impact, the industry’s reaction, and […]

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Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most expensive AI model yet

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

On Friday, Google released API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI reasoning model with industry-leading performance on several benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words, longer than the entire “Lord of The Rings” series) and $10 per […]

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Bitcoin rises slightly, holding at $83,000 as global trade war deepens stock market slide

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Bitcoin held the $83,000 level as stocks continued to crater following their worst day since 2020.

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Windows 365 Link: Microsoft’s $350 Cloud-Based Mini PC Is Finally Available to Purchase

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Get the specs, availability, and pricing details for Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Link.

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President Trump’s War on ‘Information Silos’ Is Bad News for Your Personal Data

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Donald Trump’s March 20 executive order aims to eliminate data silos. It could undermine privacy in the process.

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Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.

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OpenAI says it’ll release o3 after all, delays GPT-5

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

After effectively cancelling the consumer launch of its o3 reasoning model in February, OpenAI now says it plans to release both o3 and a next-gen successor, o4-mini, in “a couple of weeks.” In a post on X on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the reversal in course is related to OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which […]

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TechCrunch All Stage: Learn how AI can supercharge your MVPs with Chris Gardner

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

TechCrunch All Stage, our big event for founders of startups at all stages of funding (see what we did there?), is coming up July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. And it’s our pleasure to announce that Underscore VC’s investing partner Chris Gardner will join a loaded lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session […]

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